Beckington, Somerset: We’re digging up the past in a rural churchyard, connecting people to their long-lost family members
A “ten-pound pom” left Glasgow for Australia after the war and never saw her family again. My gran’s little sister occupied an empty space for me until last year, when a couple of enterprising women posted a photograph online that they had taken of a tombstone in a Tasmanian cemetery. It would bring me in touch with a second cousin I never knew existed.
We came with camera to an English churchyard intending to reciprocate across the continents for the Australians, Canadians, Americans and others who request a picture of their own ancestors’ final resting place through Findagrave.com. Success feels like giving a kind of life beyond death, especially when an inscription with character warms the heart. But we had learned from experience not to be too hopeful.
Continue reading… Beckington, Somerset: We’re digging up the past in a rural churchyard, connecting people to their long-lost family membersA “ten-pound pom” left Glasgow for Australia after the war and never saw her family again. My gran’s little sister occupied an empty space for me until last year, when a couple of enterprising women posted a photograph online that they had taken of a tombstone in a Tasmanian cemetery. It would bring me in touch with a second cousin I never knew existed.We came with camera to an English churchyard intending to reciprocate across the continents for the Australians, Canadians, Americans and others who request a picture of their own ancestors’ final resting place through Findagrave.com. Success feels like giving a kind of life beyond death, especially when an inscription with character warms the heart. But we had learned from experience not to be too hopeful. Continue reading… Rural affairs, Environment, UK news, Family, Life and style, Genealogy, Architecture, Plants
